Dinamo Zagreb v Salzburg background

Dinamo Zagreb will look to end a four-game winless run against Salzburg as the Croatian and Austrian titleholders meet in the UEFA Champions League play-offs.

Previous meetings• Krunoslav Jurčić’s Dinamo lost 3-2 on aggregate to Huub Stevens’ Salzburg in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. Under Zoran Mamić, they then succumbed 4-2 away and 5-1 at home to Adi Hütter’s Salzburg in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League group stage.

• Dinamo’s Gordon Schildenfeld spent the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons with Austrian club Sturm Graz, scoring three goals in 70 league appearances.

• Dinamo’s 19-year-old midfielder Ante Ćorić joined the club after a spell in Salzburg’s academy.

Coach profiles• A striker for Dinamo from 1973 to 1983, Zlatko Kranjčar – father of Niko – took charge of the club for a third time this summer. He has lifted national titles as a player (1981/82) and a coach (1995/96) with his home-town side and more recently won the 2011/12 Iranian championship as Sepahan boss.

• Kranjčar is well known in Austria, having scored 119 goals in 240 games for Rapid Wien, later coaching Austria Klagenfurt and Linz.

• A midfielder – and later youth coach – at Barcelona, Salzburg’s Spanish coach Óscar García has managed abroad with Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Brighton & Hove Albion and Watford, and led Salzburg to the Austrian title in his first campaign in charge in 2015/16.